... The chapter is based on a thin case study, in which five apparently white, upper-class women visit their psychoanalyst in The Hague, with the complaint that they possess Hottentot nymphae, the contemporary term to indicate the enlarged labia minora ascribed to black women. The case study...

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... This chapter begins with the repatriation of the body of Sarah Baartman, known to many as the Venus Hottentot. It thinks through the ascription of meaning that her burial accrues, particularly around the reading of her will that, I argue, remains ultimately illegible. The chapter then goes...